550 Grand Street
Manhattan · Lower East Side, NY 10002
Also listed by the City as 530 Grand Street
550 Grand Street is a 525-apartment building in Lower East Side, built in 1949, managed by Akam Associates, INC. The City has 108 open housing-code violations on file for it, 13 of them immediately hazardous, about 0.21 per apartment, somewhat above the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 17 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 7 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.
Managed by Akam Associates, INC.
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- Units
- 525
- Year built
- 1949
- Neighborhood
- Lower East Side
- Borough
- Manhattan
This building’s record with the City
Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.
17tenant complaints
Filed with 311 in the past year · 3 the year before
Typically closed in 7 days · neighborhood median is 4
108open repairs
Outstanding with HPD · about 0.2 per apartment
- Immediately hazardous
- 13
- Hazardous
- 69
- Non-hazardous
- 26
What the open repairs are about
- Stairs, floors and ceilings45
- Pests15
- Electrical15
- Smoke and CO alarms10
- Leaks, damp or mould8
- Doors, windows and locks6
Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026
The company that manages it, elsewhere
Akam Associates, INC manages 257 other buildings we cover, holding 34,497 apartments.
- open violations
- 2,818open violations
- immediately hazardous
- 338immediately hazardous
- 311 complaints
- 458311 complaints
- per apartment
- 0.1per apartment
in the past year
The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 28 September 2026.)
What tenants say
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